Hello Vic,
My opinion, which is the one that counts, is that the Police had a suspect in Alphon and they needed Nudds to move him into Room 24 so he could have been shown to have discarded, or at least have been in a position to discard, the spent gun cartridge cases. Nudds obliged and the cops were happy, but Val Storie did not recognise Alphon, presumably because Alphon had not been in the Moggie Minor and had not raped her.
As a side note, if Val is right in her recollection of the ID parade, then the Police topped their own incompetence by failing to make clear to her that she should only make a positive identification, and that if she could not, then she should not identify anybody else on the basis that he looked a bit like the rapist/murderer but was not.
Putting the matter neutrally, in failing to accept Nudds' first statement at face value, the Police obtained the second statement which led to them being able to put Alphon forward as a possible suspect for Valerie Storie to identify. This backfired and all right thinking people would have to regard (1) Miss Storie's ability to identify the culprit as suspect (2) Nudds recollection as to who was the last Caucasian to occupy Room 24 as suspect and (3) the Police's ability to investigate the crime fairly and competently as suspect.
The judge thought the same and summed up for an acquittal. The prosecution seems to have been saved by the Bedfordshire jury who swallowed the prosecution case.
Ron
My opinion, which is the one that counts, is that the Police had a suspect in Alphon and they needed Nudds to move him into Room 24 so he could have been shown to have discarded, or at least have been in a position to discard, the spent gun cartridge cases. Nudds obliged and the cops were happy, but Val Storie did not recognise Alphon, presumably because Alphon had not been in the Moggie Minor and had not raped her.
As a side note, if Val is right in her recollection of the ID parade, then the Police topped their own incompetence by failing to make clear to her that she should only make a positive identification, and that if she could not, then she should not identify anybody else on the basis that he looked a bit like the rapist/murderer but was not.
Putting the matter neutrally, in failing to accept Nudds' first statement at face value, the Police obtained the second statement which led to them being able to put Alphon forward as a possible suspect for Valerie Storie to identify. This backfired and all right thinking people would have to regard (1) Miss Storie's ability to identify the culprit as suspect (2) Nudds recollection as to who was the last Caucasian to occupy Room 24 as suspect and (3) the Police's ability to investigate the crime fairly and competently as suspect.
The judge thought the same and summed up for an acquittal. The prosecution seems to have been saved by the Bedfordshire jury who swallowed the prosecution case.
Ron
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